Power Outage and LOTS of Smoke From Harman P38

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i have the same unit...shuts down with no smoke at all in the house..
Probably a greater rise in the flue therefore greater natural draft. OP only has 4-5 ft rise.
 
My experience says otherwise.
I've checked both my stoves by pulling the plug while they were at full fire. I didn't see smoke at all. The MVAE has 23 feet of hot vertical to help it draft. The PVDC has about 8 feet of vertical (basement dweller). Both stoves have OAK's.
Draft can pull air through the combustion blower even if it isn't running and hot air rises.

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My stove never smoked, but I do keep it on a backup just in case. The rise on my flue is 12ft though.
 
so if i get a new battery back up like the APC BE-750G, i just plug the stove into the APC, then the APC into the outlet?

if power goes out, i'll have a couple minutes on the APC to shut down the stove? i really want to minimize smoke into the house.

Be certain to plug into one of the outlets which is on a battery backup. Not all of them on the APC unit are.
 
Sounds like you had some wind blowing at it. Try again on a calm day and see what happens.
 
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